Silver medalist staff United States pose after the ladies’s 4×100-meter freestyle ultimate on the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Sunday.
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USA Swimming staff members are recovering from acute gastroenteritis as they compete within the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, a spokesperson for the staff informed NPR on Sunday.
The staff’s medical workers has been “treating these experiencing signs and advising the staff on additional preventative and restoration measures,” Nikki Warner, senior communications director for USA Swimming, mentioned. Warner didn’t say which swimmers have been impacted or how they contracted the virus.
Acute gastroenteritis, generally referred to as a abdomen bug, is an sickness that may result in diarrhea, nausea, abdomen ache and vomiting, based on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. It might be attributable to viruses such because the norovirus, micro organism similar to E. coli, parasites together with giardia, and sure medicines or toxins.
The norovirus alone causes 685 million circumstances of acute gastroenteritis worldwide every year, the CDC additionally says. Traveler’s diarrhea, a typical type of acute gastroenteritis, can happen from contaminated meals or water. Some circumstances of acute gastroenteritis are handled with IV fluids and medicine together with antibiotics. It’s unknown what kind of gastroenteritis USA swim staff members are recovering from.
Some staff members missed occasions over the weekend. Torri Huske, 22 years outdated and an Olympic gold medalist, didn’t compete within the girls’s 100m butterfly warmth on Sunday to “prioritize her efforts within the 4x100m freestyle relay,” USA Swimming mentioned on social media late Saturday. Claire Weinstein, 18 years outdated and likewise an Olympian, didn’t race within the girls’s 400m freestyle.
Huske, together with fellow staff members Kate Douglass, Erin Gemmell and Simone Manuel, received the silver medal within the girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay on Sunday.
“It means so much,” Manuel mentioned in an announcement on successful the medal. “I feel the staff has undoubtedly needed to be adaptable and resilient, and for us to nonetheless put up a strong time and put collectively actually good splits is one thing that we may be actually happy with, given the circumstances we’ve needed to take care of.”
USA Swimming members Patrick Sammon, Jack Alexy, Jonny Kulow and Chris Guiliano additionally positioned within the males’s 4x100m freestyle relay class, successful a bronze medal. And Katie Ledecky received the bronze medal within the girls’s 400m freestyle race.
The USA swim staff is “planning to race and carry out to the very best of our capacity for the remainder of the meet,” Warner additionally mentioned.
The World Aquatics Championships continues via Aug. 3.
